A yacht owned by Mark Zuckerberg didn’t respond immediately to a call for help from a skiff that ran out of fuel off the coast of Alaska, but a maritime law expert said Monday they may not have been obligated to because the Coast Guard determined the boat wasn’t in distress.

The first and only person to break the sound barrier in a car has his eye on another speed record.

Congressional Democrats say they are investigating the Trump administration’s efforts to deport military service members and their families.

As Silicon Valley invents the artificial-intelligence future, a growing community of hobbyists is preserving the classic computers that helped launch the digital revolution.

Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election.

Health officials in Louisiana are urging beachgoers to take precautions during a summertime surge in infections from a flesh-eating bacteria.

The U.S. Coast Guard says the operator of a boat that capsized in New York Harbor, killing a mother and her infant daughter, is facing criminal charges and authorities are investigating whether the vessel was chartered illegally.

Astronomers say viewing conditions are promising for the Perseid meteor shower this year.

A program run by a legal nonprofit aims to help immigrants as they navigate the immigration court system in California's capital.

The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma opened its new Harrah’s-branded casino in April.

Officials have confirmed that two pilots who crashed while fighting a wildfire in Utah are dead.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it expects every officer and agent in the field to be equipped with a body camera by the end of August, a rapid expansion that could provide an unprecedented visual record of the federal government’s immigration enforcement operations.

Authorities say a heavy-lift helicopter battling a Utah wildfire has crashed and an uncontained blaze in Oregon killed a bulldozer operator.

President Donald Trump has gotten a reprieve in his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.

A federal judge has sided with the Virginia NAACP in its lawsuit against a county school board’s reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools, saying the decision discriminates against Black students.

Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is zeroing in on her psychiatric care before she killed her three children.

The Senate has approved a punishing Russian sanctions bill that was a top priority for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Surveillance video shows a gunman at an In-N-Out Burger in Idaho killing one of three victims by firing through a drive-up window, before shooting more people outside the fast-food chain restaurant.

Police say a man charged with starting one of the wildfires in Spokane, Washington, that have destroyed hundreds of buildings planned the crime for weeks and researched when the weather would be best for igniting it.

Authorities say a dead body has been found inside a central California home burned by a wildfire that investigators believe was accidentally started by sparks from a chain saw.

Meta on Thursday said that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet on its own and hacked another company, the latest in a series of disclosures about AI models going rogue.

Scientists say two dust storms that blanketed the Phoenix area in thick haze this week were among the most intense to hit the region in years.

The jury in the Massachusetts murder trial of Lindsay Clancy saw autopsy photos of the youngest of three children, who she has admitted strangling in January 2023.

An offshore wind company says it's reached a $1.2 billion settlement with the Trump administration to walk away from projects under development off New York, California and Louisiana.